Yang Fan got out of the car and shook his arms before he felt better. Seeing that the master's arms were numb, Tu Shanyue and Lin Yueru were a little embarrassed, and their faces were slightly red.
"Is your place nice? This gate is quite impressive."
Yang Fan put his hands behind his back and looked around first. The research institute is a large courtyard of 10,000 square meters. The courtyard is fifty meters wide and two hundred meters deep.
Although only the gates and walls have been repaired so far, not much construction has been completed.
The three main rooms and side rooms in front are used for offices and a factory. The rest of the place is wasteland. The weeds have not yet been cleared away.
"Sir, we are Qingshui Yamen. You need more budgets. If you don't do research, you won't know. Spending money is like a dyke bursting. It's terrible." Chen Xi pouted.
At the beginning, Yang Fan approved so much money for her, and she took up the job with full confidence. Unexpectedly, after the experiment started, she discovered that the money was just drizzle and could not last for half a year.
"Don't worry Chenxi, as long as you produce results, money is not a problem. I will continue to invest in you."
"Master, this is what you said, don't go back on it. We have already built two steam engines. I will take you to see them." Chen Xi grabbed Yang Fan's sleeve and shook it.
"Okay, as long as I am satisfied with your prototype, I will definitely approve enough budget for you." Seeing that Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru's faces had darkened, Yang Fan quickly promised.
Chen Xi excitedly led everyone through the Sanjin Housing Office in front and went directly to the factory.
This factory building was built with a reinforced concrete frame and corrugated iron produced by Xinghe Iron Works. Although it is simple, it is tall enough, spacious, and very strong.
The factory building is a full fifteen meters high. It seems that the construction team tried to consider future needs and deliberately increased the height.
Entering through the huge gate, you are faced with a very ugly cast iron monster standing there.
"This thing is really ugly, it's too ugly," Xiao Niangpi said with a frown.
Women naturally love beauty and like good-looking things.
This steam engine with an upright structure is silly, big, black and thick, which is really ugly. In order to keep up with the progress, it was not polished carefully. There are many burrs, and it looks like a wretched middle-aged uncle with an unshaven beard.
Yang Fan took a deep breath, the Newcomen steam engine is gone, this is it.
The Newcomen machine was first invented by the Englishman Newcomen in 1705. It was mainly used for pumping water in mines. The mechanism of this thing is very simple.
There is a vertical column in the middle of the factory building, which is made of I-beam. A transverse steel beam similar to a seesaw is installed on it. The two ends can move up and down.
On the left is a simple steam engine, with the boiler below, the water storage tank above, and the pipes and cylinders above. It is an upright structure, tall and thin.
At this time, the boiler was burning coal, and the fire was blazing, and no one could get close to it because of the high temperature. In the hot summer, two stokers were sweating and filling the coal.
Because the ladies were coming to visit today, and Director Chen Xi was also a girl who had not left the government, they did not dare to work shirtless. Everyone was dressed neatly, and their backs were soaked through.
"It's really hot here, the workers are working too hard. It's best to install air conditioning..." Yang Fan suddenly stopped, there is no air conditioning in this era.
"Air conditioner, what is that?" Chen Xi asked in surprise.
"Well, this, you can make an air-conditioning fan. Just use straw as a curtain, put a water tank on it, and let the water slowly flow down from the straw. Behind it, use a propeller driven by a bicycle, similar to the one that drives a boat.
Fan. The wind passes through the water curtain and the air is moistened and the temperature will drop." Yang Fan knew that he was lying, so he quickly explained the concept of an air-conditioning fan.
"Hey, Master, what you said makes sense." The morning light was full of little stars, and he looked at Yang Fan with admiration.
My master’s brain is really good, he can think of this method.
She has studied elementary physics and chemistry and knows that when water evaporates, it takes away a lot of heat, and such a machine must have a cooling effect.
Chen Xi finished marveling and understood that now was not the time to discuss this.
So, he continued to introduce. "This is our first prototype machine. According to the information the master gave us, it is called a Newcomen machine, and it is mainly used for pumping water."
"Nowadays, all pressurized wells are small, with little water output. One well can only irrigate one acre of land. Now many farmers have 50 acres of land. They need to purchase 50 sets of hand press well equipment. The investment is too big. This
Machines can replace manpower in pumping water, and the water output is very large. One machine can irrigate hundreds of acres of land in a few days."
With that said, several students who had just come out of the academy turned on the air outlet switch. Steam entered the cylinder, and the piston in the cylinder immediately began to move up and down.
A column comes out of the cylinder and is connected to the seesaw steel beam.
In this way, as the piston reciprocates up and down, the upper beam is pulled downward and pushed upward, and the two ends are constantly moving up and down.
On the other end of the beam, an iron rod is connected to a pressurized water pump. However, this pump pumps a lot of water and cannot be pressed manually.
Now it is reciprocating up and down driven by the steam engine. Because there is no water well below, it is just idling.
However, everyone watching the scene understood that this thing is very practical. After all, there is a huge demand for agricultural irrigation.
The weather has been cold and dry in recent years. If all the dry fields were turned into irrigated fields, the farmers would laugh to death.
"Master, this thing is really a magic tool for pumping water." Xiao Niangpi immediately thought of its use.
She thought for a while and then said: "Master, aren't you planning to build some kind of tap water in the new city? With this machine, it will be easier to lift water from the water tower. There is no need to use manpower to lift water layer by layer with a water press.
Already."
Xiao Niangpi immediately became happy. She and Lin Yueru both had mysophobia. They loved cleanliness and liked bathing. They even had to wash Yang Fan clean every day before letting him go to bed. This made Yang Fan so helpless.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, the efficiency of manpower lifting water is limited, and it is too tiring. If it is used freely, many people will be exhausted.
If you use too much water, there will be comments about being inconsiderate to the servants. As a matron, this is not a good thing.
Therefore, Yang Fan saves water when taking baths in his back house, and cannot take baths every day.
Now that we have this machine, we can take a hot bath every day.
Yang Fan was a little helpless. It was indeed possible for a steam engine to do this, but when it was used to supply water to the entire city, the power of this prototype machine was still too small. The small power of the current vertical machine was still far from enough.
Besides, the Newcomen steam engine is too inefficient, wastes coal, and is not worthy of large-scale promotion. It is still necessary to use reciprocating steam engines as soon as possible.
"Sir, I think this kind of steam engine can also be used for pumping water in coal mines and iron ores." Lin Yueru thought carefully for a while and said.
Recently she has been responsible for handling mining affairs and is quite familiar with mines.
In the report submitted below, she saw a lot of problems with mine water permeability.
Now that the Yang Fan system uses chemical fertilizers and explosives to open mines, the mine tunnels are getting deeper and deeper into the ground. Support and waterproofing have become big problems.
If the water is not pumped clean and the water floods up, it will not only drown the miners, but also cause landslides and the mine will be abandoned.
Yang Fan nodded, this kind of steam engine was invented entirely for pumping water.
Lin Yueru is very capable at work. If this era had not limited her vision and knowledge, she would be a strong woman in modern society.
Lin Yueru controls the intelligence system, and Yang Fan must keep her by his side, because the intelligence system is extremely important. They cannot be allowed to form an independent force, otherwise it will be difficult to control them.
Although the intelligence system will have a new person in charge in the future, she is only a temporary arrangement. But there is currently no suitable candidate to replace Lin Yueru, so we can only manage it like this for now.
So no matter what, we can't let her get involved in the army again. The last time we sent her to Nagasaki, we mainly considered letting her take this opportunity to see Wei Du Gong.
She also knows this, and the master will never let her have too deep involvement with the army.
Among the current military leaders, An Sanxi, mother and son regard Tu Shanyue as their benefactor. Zhang Geda is even more submissive and obedient to Tu Shanyue. When the military leaders cause trouble, they don't dare to tell the master and they all go to Tu Shanyue.
Please ask your mistress to help you find a way out.
The moon is not visible, the mountain is watertight, and the internal and external affairs can be controlled with ease.
The military affairs in the secretariat are handled by Tu Shanyue. The financial aspect is handled by Xiang Yi. The cashier of funds and the distribution of materials are handled by Xiang Ying. Yao Guang is responsible for education, science, culture and health. Public construction
Song Yingxing is responsible.
Everyone has their own area of responsibility, but they restrict each other, and no one can dominate everything.
Lin Yueru knew deeply that intelligence and spy leaders were not welcome.
Whether it was Dongchang or Jinyiwei, officials, troops and people all shunned him like snakes and scorpions.
As long as I still take care of this, Yang Fan's subordinates will naturally not get close to him.